Brinkley hosted This Week with David Brinkley from 1982 until his
retirement in 1997. In 1992, he won a Peabody Award for his report on
the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a news
analyst, Brinkley was known for his terse, biting comments and his dry
wit.
His distinctive tone of delivering the news began in World War II,
when, he said, he took to underlining words to insure the correct
emphasis on the radio and developed his "jerky, labored way of
speaking." *
